Best Runner Up Post-Rock Albums of 2017

2017 has been a perfect year for post-rock, seeing all sorts of cool releases in the somewhat broad genre you can call post-rock. After all, there’s so many subgenres of this genre, sometimes playing with doom metal and sometimes with more classic rock and indie.

Here at NMEX, we have already made the list of what we consider the absolutely best post-rock releases of 2017. You can see the list of the best post-rock albums of 2017 here. It’s somewhat interesting that no “major” post-rock bands made it to the list, Mogwai was disappointing and to be honest Godspeed You Black Emperor was too.

We wrote “Another refreshing detail about Ranges is, that while many post-rock rock bands are thriving for more brutal, disharmonic and dark sounds, much inspired by the post-metal and post-black scene, Ranges does quite the opposite. Ranges are uplifting, embracing the light and does not have a single ounce of this brutality in them. That is refreshing and I hope Ranges will keep that sound.”

Still, there’s been quite a lot of other cool releases this year, and here is a list of albums that you really should check out. So in no particular order, give a listen to :

And So I Watch You From Afar – The Endless Shimmering

If you enjoy your post-rock uplifting and with a slight math-rock flavor, you shouldn’t hesitate to put on The Endless Shimmering by And So I Watch You From Afar

Grails – Chalice Hymnal

Grails continues their kraut and psych inspired progressive post-rock. A long awaited follow up to their masterpiece deep politics. Chalice Hymnal is warm, embracing and laid back, with each and every song exploring a new cinematic theme